| FARNET The new Priority Axis 4 of the European Fisheries Fund (EFF(cache)) provides support for the sustainable development of fisheries areas. In particular, it supports measures to promote economic diversification (tourism, food, renewable energy..) and an improved quality of life in areas affected by a decline in fishing activities. An important innovation in the […]
LDnet | Defining Local Development
‘Local development’ is an important approach to regional development, rural development, social inclusion, and other policy fields. It applies to both urban and rural areas, is characterised by area-based strategies and the mobilisation of large numbers of local stakeholders, and is associated with long-term objectives and structural change, orientated towards sustainable development.
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LDnet | LDnet first meeting February 2011
Launch of LDnet The launch event of LDnet was successfully held on 1st February 2011 in Brussels with fifty participants from various organisations involved in local development, including officials from five directorates-general of the European Commission. After the keynote speech by Graham Meadows, former director-general of DG REGIO, there was a lively discussion on the […]
LDnet | Writing your first LDnet page
Writing your first LDnet page So you have registered and signed in. You are good to go. Now start a page, any page (you can delete it later) Do this by giving your page a title in the search box and click edit. If your page already exists with this title a load of text […]
LDnet | EMES
| EMES EMES : The European Research Network on Social Economy and Enterprises
LDnet | EURADA
| EURADA EURADA – European Association of Development Agencies is a non profit-making membership organization that aims to promote regional economic development through dialogue with the European Commission. It supports the exchange of good practice among Members and transnational co-operation between regional development agencies. EURADA has a membership of around 150 development agencies from 25 […]
LDnet | EURONET
| EURONET EURONET: The European Network for Economic Self Help and Local Development consultants based at University of the West of England European Group for Local Employment Initiatives. EGLEI was a network active in the 1990s. There are no active websites, but contributors are invited to add any publications that are known about.
LDnet | GREMI
| GREMI GREMI: The European Network of Innovative Milieu on SMEs, no websites survive, but they are referred to in many books on flexible specialisation
LDnet | ILO International Labour Organisation
ILO has a website called LED knowledge that is interactive and catalogues work in this field; see http://www.ledknowledge.org/index.php?mod=doc&idC=3,75(cache). ILO also backs the website http://www.ciaris.org/(cache) that brings together people working on social inclusion
LDnet | Miscellaneous organisations
The Association of Cambodian Local Economic Development Agencies (ACLEDA) is an independent Cambodian non-government organization that promotes a range of LED programs and initiatives through provincial branches and district offices. ACLEDA supports training in entrepreneurship and small business management, the establishment of neighborhood and village banks, and technical consultancy and credit for medium size enterprises. […]
LDnet | Social Polis
EU 7th Framework Programme project bringing together practitioners and academics http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/presenta/cities/cities-en.pdf See also for a previous project involving some of the same people (Moulaert etc)